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The Saints Stand By Us
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
18 January 2014
When we refer to the life of a saint, we tend to extol their actions and promote them mostly on the basis of the wonderful things they performed. From very ancient times, it was thought that this elev... 
Let’s discuss the sermon at long last – 3
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
14 January 2014
3. Dark Generalities.
“You wrap your meaning in as dark generality as any courtier”, says Saint Thomas Becket to the third tempter, in T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. This is, indeed, the temp...
The Righteousness of Humility
Fr. Matthew the Poor
11 January 2014
In January, 1976, Fr. Matthew delivered a sermon in the church of Abba-Skheiron in the Monastery of Saint Makarios. He makes many of the same points as John Chrysostom did in his Discourse on Baptism,...
Christian Morals, as they Emerge from the Incarnation of Logos – 4
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
29 December 2013
Who will not leap for joy and be filled with rejoicing when we have inherited all this grace and these gifts through the love of our Redeemer? And He has not deprived us of the sense of His presence e...
Christian Morals, as they Emerge from the Incarnation of Logos – 3
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
28 December 2013
Let us now look at some aspects of the life of Christ which we are called upon to imitate. Our Lord spoke to us of Satan’s total inability to acquire any sort of authority over Him: “The ruler of this...
Christian Morals, as they Emerge from the Incarnation of Logos – 2
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
26 December 2013
Within such a sea of perverted thoughts and decisions, people, with their own criteria, also shaped the outside world, and ordered their relations with their surroundings accordingly, with both other ...
Christian Morals, as they Emerge from the Incarnation of Logos – 1
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
25 December 2013
As we know, the intervention of God in the history of mankind was a continuous revelation over many centuries and was completed with the incarnation of the Divine Word. The aim of the revelation befor...
Ahmet al Khattat, an Ottoman Saint
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
23 December 2013
In every age, the Church has been adorned with saints. This means that our long-suffering and merciful God, the Consubstantial Trinity, and our Most Holy Lady do not leave the world without consolatio...
Saint Anastasia, the Deliverer from Potions
Georgios Papademetropoulos
22 December 2013
The holy and most brave martyr Anastasia lived in Rome at the time of the Emperor Diocletian (284-305). She was the daughter of a pagan, by the name of Praetextatus. Her mother, however, whose name wa...
The Blessed Elder Amvrosios the Athonite (21/12/1912 – 02/12/2006) – Part 2
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
18 December 2013
At one time he hit his leg on something and went to a hospital, where they inserted a plate into his hip. But it gave him a lot of pain. The then Metropolitan of Switzerland, Damaskinos, had him broug...
